A virtual machine is a digital environment that behaves like a physical computer. Azure Virtual machines can run Windows or Linux operating systems. You can use virtual machines to manage access to other services, to run resource-heavy calculations, or to host content. For this tutorial, we want a virtual machine that users can access over the internet.

To make our virutal machine accessible to users, it needs a steady address online. To create this address, we create a network interface with a static public IP address. With a public IP address, we can define network security rules that allow other computers to access our virtual machine.

This page describes how to create:

  • A static public IP address
  • A network interface
  • A Linux virtual machine

Create a virtual machine

  1. Open the main.tf file.

  2. Add the following Terraform code to the bottom of the file:

     resource "azurerm_public_ip" "ip4" {
     name                = "azure-web-app-ip"
     resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
     location            = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
     allocation_method   = "Static"

     lifecycle {
         create_before_destroy = true
     }
 }

 resource "azurerm_network_interface" "nic" {
     name                = "azure-web-app-nic"
     location            = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
     resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
     ip_configuration {
         name                          = "public"
         subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.subnet.id
         private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
         public_ip_address_id          = azurerm_public_ip.ip4.id
     }
 }

 resource "azurerm_linux_virtual_machine" "vm" {
     name                            = "azure-web-app-vm"
     resource_group_name             = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
     location                        = azurerm_resource_group.rg.location
     size                            = "Standard_F2"
     admin_username                  = "adminuser"
     admin_password                  = "myp@sswoRD11!"
     disable_password_authentication = false
     network_interface_ids           = [azurerm_network_interface.nic.id]
     os_disk {
         caching              = "ReadWrite"
         storage_account_type = "Standard_LRS"
     }
     source_image_reference {
         publisher = "canonical"
         offer     = "0001-com-ubuntu-server-jammy"
         sku       = "22_04-lts"
         version   = "latest"
     }
 }

Define a network interface

TBD

Define an OS disk

TBD

Define the source image reference

TBD

Troubleshooting

TBD

Learn more

TBD

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